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Mountain Stories

My Grandmother, Rhoda Angeline Bugg, was born in 1902. She was a small lady; kind, soft-spoken and hard-working. She milked cows, til her arthritis wouldn't let her work anymore. I can remember visiting her each summer and going to the barn with her to see the new calves . For breakfast, there was always country ham, eggs and her special homeade grape jelly - all from their farm.

Grandmother had a quiet sense of humor. This could be seen in the little things she told her children, when they were small. Her sayings were a kind and fun way to help her children learn a lesson or just for a laugh.

The mountains have lots of nursery rhymes and sayings that are fading from memories. Here a few of my Grandmother's sayings.